DELAWARE VALLEY VETERANS HOME

2701 SOUTHAMPTON RD PHILADELPHIA PA 19154

Nov 2020

- Michael E. Thornton

Five Star Rated 7 consecutive

Years

Fall Festivities at DVVH

Prelude: Fall brings change

The DVVH staff has been working diligently to bring back many of the cele-

brations and traditions of years past, while taking into account the needed

precautions and modifications due to COVID-19.

After a lively Harvest/Halloween season featuring multiple caliber events,

staff is focused on making the holiday season special for our residents dur-

ing this difficult time.

This year we will be decorating not only the inside of the home, but we will

be lighting ten large trees outside the home. We have all new high quality

indoor trees thanks to Balsam Brands. Several veterans organizations will

be sending quality decorations from their members to support a “post” tree

inside the home.

Modified planning is already set for our annual Thanksgiving and Christmas

dinners. We are looking forward to giving our residents a reason to smile.

We will be giving the residents individualized gifts with the help of St.

Anselm’s Parish, American Legion Post 148, and other friends of DVVH.

We thank everyone for their continued support and concern. We look for-

ward to the day that we can return to having celebrations with the entire

DVVH community.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Fall Brings Change Page 2

Birthday Salute to Lena Daniels—102 Years Old Page 4

Annual Costume Party Page 6

Trunk or Treat Page 10

Monte Carlo Day Page 15

Commandant’s Corner Page 19

Generous Sponsors & Benefactors Page 20

TAPS Page 21

Toni Tisdale with baskets to be given to residents

Happy 102nd Birthday to Gold Star Mother and

WWII Veteran Lena Daniels - A True American Hero

Annual Costume Party

C.N.A Adriene Vallerio and Commandant Peter Ojeda

Left: Activities staff makes it happen. Right: Commandant Peter Ojeda and Margaret Roberts– Moore

Here come the troops

Annual Costume Party

Social Services Team members Mary Beth Grimaldi, Stephanie Mayo and Hannah Greenfield encourage a resident.

(L to R) Wanda Elliott and Regina Keyes encourage the residents

Annual Costume Party

Little Red Riding Hood (Maggie Dearnley), her Grandmother (Andy Dowds, CRNP) and the Big Bad Wolf (Commandant Peter Ojeda)

encourage a resident. Right Side : TRex (Jason Mertz), Hippie (Candace Anderson) and Pirate (Actiivities Director Kristian Scheuer)

Director of Dietary Services Paul Somerville and Clinical Nutritionist Jason Mertz

Annual Costume Party

L to R : Food Services Supervisor Wanda Elliott, Dietary’s Deborah Pettyjohn

and Clinical Dietician Diane Hauze encourage a resident.

Trunk or Treat

Rhonda Krasnek, Maggie Dearnley, and Wanda Elliott encourage a resident

Mary Beth Grimaldi, Hannah Greenfield and Myrtho Gaston–Jeanty encourage a resident

Trunk or Treat

Trunk or Treat

Rodica Pasculescu runs a game station at Trunk or Treat

Trunk or Treat

Trunk or Treat

Kelly Brogden Quality Assurance Director runs a bag toss game with residents.

MONTE CARLO DAY

Activities Director Kristian Scheuer runs a table at Monte Carlo Day

MONTE CARLO DAY

MONTE CARLO DAY

Social Worker Mary–Beth Grimaldi works the tables at Monte Carlo Day—residents received free prizes

MONTE CARLO DAY

Clinical Dietician Jason Mertz works the tables at Monte Carlo Day—residents received free prizes

Delaware Valley Veterans Home

Commandant:

Peter A. Ojeda RN, BSN, NHA

Medical Director:

Dr. Violetta Berdichevskaya MD

Director of Nursing:

Deborah Olivieri RNC, MS

Search “Pennsylvania Department of

Military and Veterans Affairs” on any

of those sites to connect with us and

see the latest news, pictures

Family members of Residents:

Copies of the Newsletter are

available on our website at https://

www.dmva.pa.gov/paveteranshomes/

DelawareValleyVeteransHome/

Documents/DVVH-Newsletter.pdf

Valley Voice

Editor: Craig Lunsford

Team: Sue Riever, Derrick Jones,

Maggie Dearnley, Kelly French, and

Stephanie Mayo

Photos: Craig Lunsford, Rhonda Krasnek,

Leonard Lulka & The Activities Team:

Kristian Scheuer, Derrick Jones, Emilia

Gherman, Christena Young, Pat Barley,

Myrtho Gaston–Jeanty, Candace

Anderson and Sharon Bolcar

Autumn has arrived and the colors are beautiful this year. Despite Covid-19 we were able to hold many events for our residents. Events included the Navy Birthday Party, Monte Carlo Day, Afternoon Happy Hours, bingo and morning exercise. We also celebrated the 102nd birthday of one of our residents with a lunch-eon. A Trunk or Treat was held for our residents on Main Street with tables set up and decorated by each department. The residents visited the tables and picked up their special goodies. We also had a Halloween Cos-tume Parade with the staff in costume visiting the units. The residents love this annual event.

We are still in Covid protection mode, but we are con-tinuing to keep our residents entertained.

I want to thank all of the staff for their hard work to make our facility the best for our veterans during this pandemic.

Thank you.

Peter

Recent Generous Sponsors & Benefactors

Mr. and Mrs. John Agnew Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Gentner

American Legion Post 148 Aux DG and PA Kuwasz

American Legion Post 234 Mr. and Mrs. Len Law

American Legion Post 754 Mr. and Mrs. Manzo

American Legion Post 821— Bridesburg Ms. Linda Manzo

Balsam Brands Mr. and Mrs. Bob Martin

Mr. James Bisignaro Mr. and Mrs. Danny Martin

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brennan Mr. Al McDonald

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Camago Mr. Patrick McKenna

Military Order of the Cootie Pup Tent 44 Mr. Jack McLaughlin

Mr. Bill Crean Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Messinger

Mr. John Crussard Mr. and Mrs. George Moy

Ms. Delores D'Aulerio Ms. Michelle Omari

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Deeney Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ogrince

Ms. Isabel Dillio Mr. and Mrs. Philip Smith

Mr. Patrick Dugan Tun Tavern Leather Necks

Mr. and Mrs. Ken Elliott Dept of PA District 8,VFW Auxiliary

Mr. and Mrs. John Farmer VFW Post 6393

Mr. Don Fortuwe VFW Post 6495

Mr. Joseph Fraioli Phila. Vietnam Vets. Memorial Society

Mr. and Mrs. John Gallagher Susan Walsh and Karin Kornaga

TAPS played live at State Veterans Home Week 2020

TAPS

Vincent Tuono

November 19. 1931 - October 6, 2020

United states army

Earl Knight

November 20, 1933 - October 29.. 2020

United States Navy